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Originally Posted by eMCZe
I wanted to reply yesterday but as a new user I have post limits.

It should be Campagnolo Chorus. I am curious if all the equipment is original from 1992 model. The patient is a Cadex CFR-1.​
To confuse things even more, '92 was about the time that Campagnolo shuffled components around. They did away with the Croce d'Aune group, retiring its derailleurs and hubs and moving its crankset down to Chorus after removing its self-extractors. The Chorus crankset was handed down to the Athena group. I think that was also when the derailleurs were redesigned to all be drop parallelogram, taking advantage of the retired Suntour patent. In the years following, you have to have an eagle eye to spot the differences between many of the derailleurs, and some of them had horribly cheap. stamped jockey cages. The monoplaner Chorus calipers got handed down to Athena at some point. Hubs also can be difficult to identify, but it doesn't really matter because everything but Record had stamped bearing cups and for a while at least all the hubs used the same cones (until cassette hubs took over, at least), so there was no functional difference between Chorus and Athena, or even the earlier Triomphe and Victory hubs beyond typically subtle differences in the profile of the hub shell and the shape of the locknuts. It's a lot easier to place them if they still have their original skewers, but even these seem to have moved from group to group.

Even their top group created confusion. I understand that Campagnolo never used the name C-Record. It was just Record, with Corsa (road) and Pista (track) variants. It was we poor slobs who called it C-Record to differentiate it from Super or Nuovo Record. You see every possible misnaming in online auctions, typically up-branding a component. I've seen many Super Record hubs listed for sale, even though they are incredibly rare actually out in the wild--probably few enough to count on your fingers, since they were pulled before they went on the market due to axle breakage.
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